Combined guard and stand for incandescent electric lamps



(No Model.)

B. GAHLAU. COMBINED GUARD AND STAND FOR INGANDESGENT ELECTRIC LAMPS.

Patented Aug. 18, 1896 UNITED STATES PATENT Urricn.

EMIL GAHLAU, OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN, ASSIGNOR TO PHILO R. WVAGOR,

OF SPRINGFIELD,

MASSACHUSETTS.

COMBINED GUARD AND STAND FOR INCANDESCENT ELECTRIC LAMPS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 566,287, dated August 18, 1896. Application filed December 27, 1895. Serial No. 573,441. (No model.)

To ctZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known thatI, EMIL GAHLAU, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Detroit, in the county of W'ayne and State of Michigan, have invented new and useful Improvements in a Combined Guard and Stand for Incandescent Electric Lamps, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to lamp-guards for incandescent electric lamps, the object being to provide a guard for such lamps capable of being removably connected thereto and provided with supports for said guard and lamp whereby the two are supported on a table or similar place in proximity to the user; and the invention consists in the peculiar construction and arrangement of the parts of the guard, all as hereinafter fully described, and more particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings forming part of this specification, Figure 1 is a perspective View of an incandescent-lamp guard and support embodying my improvements. Fig. 2 illustrates a slight modification in the construction of the clamping devices of the guard whereby the latter is attached to the neck of the lamp.

In the drawings, A and B indicate wire rings between the upper and lower extremities of the guard.

D indicates a series of legs or supports for the lamp-guard, each consisting of two wire arms 3 3, the upper extremities of which arms 3 are attached to the ring A by coiling their ends around the latter, as shown, or by soldering the same, or in other suitable manner, and the intermediate parts of said arms 3, between said ring A and their lower extremities or bearing ends, are attached to the ring B, preferably by soldering them thereto, as aforesaid, or, if preferred, by coiling them around said ring B tightly in the manner thatsaid arms 3 are attached to the ring A, as above described.

The main frame of the guard, including its feet or supports D, being constructed as described, constitutes a cage, so to speak, for the reception of the bulb of an incandescent electric lamp, which constitutes a guard against the accidental breaking of said bulb, and a stand whereby it is supported upon a table or desk, as aforesaid.

Means for clamping or temporarily secur ing the lamp to or within the lamp stand and guard are provided, consisting of two wireloop arms E, which arms are pivotally connected to said ring A at 4 4 4 4, so that the upper extremities of said arms may be swung outwardly in the direction of the arrows 5 to permit of the introduction of the lamp (indicated in Fig. 1 by dotted lines) within the device, after which the said arms E are closed against the neck of the lamp and so secured by two interlocking clamps 6 6, which clamps are pivoted to one of said arms in the manner shown in Fig. 1, and when detached from each other and swung apart, as indicated in dotted lines in said last-named figure, said arms E E may be separated, as aforesaid, to introduce the lamp into the device. The said modified construction of the clamping devices for said arms E (shown in Fig. 2) consists in providing one clamping-wire 7, which has one extremity secured to the upper end of one of said arms E in such manner that it occupies a permanent position relative to the second clampingwire 8, which is pivotally connected to one side of the last-named frame and has one extremity thereof extending beneath a portion of the said permanent clamping-wire, whereby it (the said clamping-wire 8) is prevented from sliding up or down on the part of the frame to which it is attached, the said clamping-wires 7 and 8 each having a coil on its free end for interlocking in the manner shown after the lamp shall have been inserted into the guard.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- 1. A combined guard and stand for incandescent electric lamps consisting of a series of supports D, a ring A, to which the upper extremities of said supports are attached, the ring B, attached to said supports between said ring A, and their lower extremities, two upstanding loop-shaped arms pivotally connected with said ring A, and means for clamping the upper extremities of said arms to the neck of a lamp, substantially as described.

2. A combined guard and stand for incandescent electric lamps consisting of a series of supports D, a ring A, to which the upper extremities of said supports are attached, the ring B, attached to said supports between said ring A, andtheir lower extremities, two upstanding loop-shaped arms pivotally connected With said ring A, and a clamping-wire pivotally connected to one of said arms E, and interlocking with a similar clamping- Wire surrounding the opposite arm E, substantially as described.

3. A combined guard and stand for incandescent electric lamps consisting of a series of supports D, a ring A, to which the upper extremities of said supports are attached, the ring 13, attached to said supports between said ring A, and their lower extremities, two upstanding loop-shaped arms pivotally connected With said ring A, and two clamping- Wires 6, pivoted to one of said arms and encircling both thereof and having interlocking extremities, substantially as described.

EMIL GAIILAU. lVitnesses:

K. I. OLEMoNs, H. A. OHAPIN. 

